The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-17
GREENSBORO BUDGET

uhEElNODJtSO DCDOE1s
rHE CREAM OF THE WEEKS NEWS
FROM THE CITY OFFLOwERs.
Another Tragedy In Greensb oro-Conclave
or the Railroad men. ThursdayA
Custom thnt savors Of Rarbarism.
Special Correspondence Of tie Sentinel.
GREENsBoRo, N. c., FEB. IA. 1887.-Our
community is again stirred, and more pro-
foundry than ever before, over another hor-
rible affair-the night assassination of one
of the oldest and best citizens of the place.
On the night of the 18th friday. between
n and 8, p. M, as Mr.. w. B. Crump, an
old gentleman who has for number of
years been employed At the r. & D. R. R.
depot as policeman, was on his way from
his house to the depot, he was knocked
down Immediately in front of the new Bap-
tist church and robbed. The miscreant at
tackled him from behind and was not seen.
Your correspondent passed over the ground
| not more than 10 or Is minutes before.
The place was very dark-the wind csme in
ftful gusts, with a little rain. A colored
boy stumbled on the body Of the PROSTATE
man few minutes later-friends soon came
to his relief, and he was borne to his house
about 100 yards distant. The blow was
given on the side of the head, the hat was
broken through, the scalp cut and mangled,
the skull probably fractured. The patient
| is n years old, man of remarkable vitality;
he may partially recover, some of his friends
think he will most of the time since, when
reused from his stupor, he has been able to
recognize friends and to make known his
wants.
The repetition of this tragedy suggests
most serious problem for Our community.
Just siS years ago, merchant of this place,
Mr.. Jno. Parker, was assaulted in an ex-
actly similar way, the same in all its de
tails, murdered and robbed.
Less than two years ago. Mr.. Jas. Owen.
an old citizen, a mechanic in the employ of
the Sergt. Mfg. Co., was assaulted in the
same way, murdered and robbed The
condolences in all these cases make them
look fearftflly, as if they were the work of
one and the same hand.
Conjecture seems to take no general shape
as to the perpetrator, except that the mo-
tive in all is robbery. Every man has his
own theory as to who or what sort of char
acter it is, and these theories differ widely.
THE r. r. MAGNATEs
+ Were in town last week, a good many of
them. Outsiders supposed they were wrest-
ling with big projects, one of which was to
give Greensboro about two more railroads.
| ic do Of he iv,ifi cd
Some of your townsmen (Jas. A. Gray and
]. C. Buxton) were here.
Many things are being said which NAV
be set down as simply rumor, which need
not be repeated here, as the facts, like the
"survival of the fttest," will live to come
to the front at last.
The villanious earicature known as the
valentine, Is abroad. These horrors, it would
seem, have reached climax in thethideous
Your correspondent has never had the
"jim jams," but for monstrous, paralyzing
ugliness, it is hoped that the vipers and
festive dragons of the inebriates tortured
brain are not more frightful than the weird
and hateful things now vended to our sweet
little girls and our rollicking, light-hearted
l
violet and the honey-sucklel A truce to
the abominationi If our legislature will
neither suppress manipulated guam, nor
enact "dog law" let it at least, in the
name of humanity, retire the so-called
comic valentine from circulation
i NUGGETS.
The tobacco worms did not get all the
weed last year, not by large majority
The past week was muscular enc in tobac-
CO circles. The yellow leaf was here in bill
ious quantities, all the way from frost bit
ten turnip greens up to fine wrappers up in
the sixties.
The egg market is mercurial, it Guivers
all the way from cts. per dos up to 20
1t is on a see-saw with the weather-mer
curry down, eggs up-vice versa.
Another planning mill soon to start. The
, "Steele" factory now being over-hauled
, Other mills enlarging their capacity-build
ing booms.
Nine newspapers are published in Greens
boro-pelitical, religions, literary. WIZ
wants to go to cunningham ?"
The new Baptist church, with its pointed
gables, its antique little windows, is tie,
foot wide Abbey windows, "barrin" tn
Indian red paint on brackets and cornices
is very comedy edi6ce.
: L. w. A.